U.S. President History
1759 - Parson Mason Weems was born. He is remembered for his fictitious stories that he presented as fact. He was responsible for the story about George Washington cutting down his father's cherry tree.
1884 - Eleanor Roosevelt was born.
1939 - U.S. President Roosevelt was presented with a letter from Albert Einstein that urged him to develop the U.S. atomic program rapidly.
2002 - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize for his commitment to diplomacy over war.
| "The terrorists are traitors to their own faith, trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself. The enemy of America is not our many Muslim friends; it is not our many Arab friends. Our enemy is a radical network of terrorists, and every government that supports them." - U.S. President George W. Bush, September 20, 2001 |